Deuteronomy 7:12-15

A Chosen People

12 x "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you y the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. 13 He will z love you, bless you, and multiply you. a He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples. b There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil c diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:12 - 16
    And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
    Deuteronomy 28:1 - 14
    And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
    Leviticus 26:3 - 13
    If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 105:8
    He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations.
    Luke 1:55
    As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.
    Luke 1:72
    To show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant.
  3. Cross References
    John 14:21
    Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 30:9
    The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 23:26
    None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:27
    The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
    Deuteronomy 28:60
    And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
    Exodus 9:14
    For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
    Exodus 15:26
    Saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.